Friday, December 05, 2008

Like ostriches

Progress reports are coming home from school, so there has been much quiet reflection and self-assessment over the past few days. Even by our kindergartener.

"I came into kindergarten already knowing a lot of stuff, and now I have learned even more!"

I thought of how he had blossomed during his year of pre-school, learning the letters of the alphabet, learning to count past thirteen finally. "So you feel like you knew lots of things before the year started?"

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A Brief Explanation

After spending the year in Sarajevo, Bosnia, our family is in the Auvergne region of France for the summer university term. We won't be travelling much but are settling in for life here in the south of France with our five year old, seven year old, and seventeen year old.